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A man who police say tried to rape a Good Samaritan on University Bridge remained in the King County Jail on Monday after a King County District Court judge ordered him held without bail on suspicion of assault and attempted rape.

A woman was on the north end of University Bridge about 3 a.m. Saturday when she saw a man lying in the road who appeared to be injured. Cars were swerving to avoid hitting him, and police said he was staging his own bicycle accident. She told police she stopped to help when the man attacked her.

He is not being identified because he hasn't been charged in the case.

When the woman approached, he "sprang up violently and attacked her, at one point pinning her to the roadway beside her car," according to court documents. Police say he threatened to kill the woman.

A man driving by told officers he saw the woman pinned with the man against her chest, his pants down. The attacker had a knife in his right front coat pocket, according to police.

He got off the woman when the man returned to help, court documents say. She was taken to Harborview Medical Center, and police say her injuries are not life-threatening.

The 38-year-old man whom police arrested listed the Compass Center, a building for homeless and poor people in Pioneer Square, as his last address. Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty in Seattle Municipal Court to second-degree property damage, first-degree criminal trespass and theft. He also pleaded guilty to another theft charge filed in municipal court last year.

Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecutor's Office, said the state has until Wednesday to file charges in the case.